Section 17.01. Definitions.

  In this chapter:

(1)  "Address" means one of the following:

(a) A street address.

(b) Township, range, and section numbers, if the location has no street address.

(c) Geographic coordinates, if the location has no street address and no township, range, and section numbers.

(2)  "Animal dealer" means a person who is required to be licensed under s. ATCP 12.03 .

(3)  "Animal dealer premises" means any real estate, owned or controlled by an animal dealer, at which the dealer keeps, exhibits or receives livestock or wild animals, or from which the animal dealer ships livestock or wild animals.

(4)  "Animal market" means any premises that are open to the public for the purpose of buying or selling livestock or wild animals, and that have facilities to keep, feed, and water livestock or wild animals prior to sale.

(5)  "Animal market operator" means a person who is required to be licensed under s. ATCP 12.02 (1) .

(6)  "Animal trucker" means a person who is required to be licensed under s. ATCP 12.04 (1) .

(7)  "Animal trucker premises" means any real estate, owned or controlled by an animal trucker, at which the animal trucker collects or holds livestock for transportation.

(8)  "Bovine animal" means beef cattle, dairy cattle, or American bison of any age or sex.

(9)  "Captive game birds" means birds of a normally wild type, such as pheasants, quail, wild turkeys, migratory wildfowl, pigeons, and exotic birds raised for hunting, that are raised in captivity. "Captive game birds" does not include poultry or ratites, but does include birds kept pursuant to a license issued under s. 169.15 , 169.19 , 169.20 , or 169.21 , Stats.

(10)  "Cervid" means a member of the family of animals that includes deer, elk, moose, caribou, reindeer, and the subfamily musk deer.

(11)  "Clinic" means a place where livestock are kept primarily for purposes of health care or rehabilitation.

(12)  "Confidential information" means information that the department is required, under s. 95.51 , Stats., and this chapter, to keep confidential.

(13)  "Contiguous" means adjacent, or separated only by a transportation corridor, stream, or like feature.

(14)  "Contract agent" means a person who acts on behalf of the department, pursuant to a written contract with the department.

(15)  "Dairy farm" means a dairy farm as defined under s. 97.22 (1) (a) , Stats., operated by a milk producer.

(16)  "Deer farm" means real estate on which a person, who is required to register under s. ATCP 10.61 , keeps farm-raised deer.

(17)  "Department" means the Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.

(18)  "Description" of a location means an address or other information that identifies that location.

(20)  "Fish farm" means a facility, at which a person hatches fish eggs or keeps live fish, which is required to be registered under s. ATCP 10.60 (2) .

(21)  "Individual" means a human being.

(22)  "Keep livestock" means to own, feed, house, confine, or care for livestock, or to exercise legal or physical control over livestock. "Keep livestock" does not include the quarantine or confinement of livestock by the department or by the United States department of agriculture.

(23)  "Livestock" means bovine animals, equine animals, goats, poultry, sheep, swine other than wild hogs, farm-raised deer, captive game birds, camelids, ratites, and fish.

(24)  "Livestock exhibition" means a state, county, or district fair, or a recurring event at which livestock from different premises are exhibited to the public at a common location.

(25)  "Location" means a parcel of real estate in this state, or a group of 2 or more contiguous parcels of real estate in this state, on which livestock are kept.

(26)  "Milk producer" has the meaning given in s. 97.22 (1) (f) , Stats.

(27)  "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, or other legal entity.

(28)  "Poultry" means domesticated fowl commonly used for human food, including domesticated chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowl, squab, ratites, and captive game birds.

(29)  "Premises" means one or more locations that a person registers under a single premises code.

(30)  "Premises code" means a code issued under s. ATCP 17.02 (7) .

(31)  "Primary location" means a premises location to which a premises code is assigned.

(32)  "Ratite" means a member of the group of flightless birds that includes the ostrich, emu, cassowary, kiwi, and rhea.

(33)  "Register" means to apply for and obtain from the department an annual premises registration certificate under s. ATCP 17.02 .

(34)  "Registered location" means a primary or secondary location that is covered by a current annual premises registration certificate under s. ATCP 17.02 (6) .

(35)  "Secondary location" means a location that shares or commingles animals with the primary location and is registered with the primary location under a single premises code.

(36)  "Slaughter establishment" means a place at which livestock are received for slaughter.